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Smithfield Foods again cuts jobs in Beaver County. Here’s why this time is different.

The pork giant is ending contracts with 26 Utah hog farms and eliminating the jobs associated with them. But Beaver County had been here before.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Smithfield feed mill in Beaver County will stay open, but the company is ending contracts with 26 of its Utah farms and eliminating more than 70 jobs. The rural county declared a financial emergency after an initial round of layoffs in the summer of 2022.